Alex Thomson
Why did the UK government ever think that the vetting of participants in a scheme to train Libyan soldiers in the UK could be left to the Libyans, when that country was in a state of collapse?
Lindsey Hilsum
The debacle of Libyan soldiers accused of rape while on a training course near Cambridge symbolises the chaos of both post-revolutionary Libya and British policy.
The government suffers a significant defeat in attempts to avoid a trial over allegations of complicity in the imprisonment, rendition and torture of a Libyan couple in 2004.
Lindsey Hilsum
18-year-old Libyan civil society activist Tawfik Bensaud was killed on Friday, probably by Islamists. His friends are now struggling to keep faith in the democratic state they dream of.
Lindsey Hilsum
Libya’s rival factions are called Dawn and Dignity. But fighting means it has little chance of achieving the new dawn or the life of dignity the 2011 revolution promised.
Matt Frei
To America, the Middle East is like a balloon. If you squeeze it in one corner it will bulge in another. You just can’t be sure where.
As the news channels focused on violence in Gaza and the tragedy of MH17, what else happened? Channel 4 News finds out.
Lindsey Hilsum
The Libyan human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis has been shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in Benghazi on the day of the country’s general election.
Lindsey Hilsum
Migrants are risking unimaginable horror to escape the poverty of sub-Saharan Africa, travelling through Libya in search of Europe’s promised land.
Lindsey Hilsum
Old scores are being settled in Libya as militias fight to assert their power in towns and cities across the country.
Lindsey Hilsum
Nothing exemplifies the state of Libya so much as a conversation I had with an analyst in Benghazi this morning, writes Lindsey Hilsum.
Lindsey Hilsum
“Waste your summer praying in vain, For a saviour to rise from these streets” – what Bruce Springsteen can teach us about Egypt and the Arab Spring.
Lindsey Hilsum
The truth of the matter is that the Qatari succession is opaque, and no-one outside the royal family has a clear idea of what this transition means.
Lindsey Hilsum
I’ve updated my book Sandstorm with an epilogue, taking into account the killing of the US ambassador and other events in Libya. I also write on Mali, showing the links between events in the two countries.
Lindsey Hilsum
A year after Gadaffi’s capture and death, International Editor Lindsey Hilsum looks at the legacy of his rule and the prospects for the country since his demise.
